Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-29
GENERAL KICK.
The Whole Town Discussing ;he Wheeling
Clubs Uull PLAYING

The Whole Town Discussing ;hc Wheeling
Clubs Bali Playing.
The game yesterday between the Wheel
ing aud Akron teams was the last straw
that broke the camels back, in the minds
OF the Wheeling base ball public. For
some time past rumorS have been rife TO
the effect that there has been, aud is now,
dissatisfaction in the Wheeling club, and
that certain clique have been playing
yellow ball in every game pitched by Sui
iiylu and klmber in order TO put them in
bad odor, while in the Games pitched by
Dunn he received almost perfect support
And it was not all in the error column this
yellow playing could hr seen, but in the
batting as we'll
When the Wheeling club left the city on
it's present trip it stood the best base ball
club i'm the Ohio League, ana to-day, in
the opinion Of those who know
il has lao equal As club
I'm the Ohio League. Wherlng's
batteries are not cNccllcd in the League
aud no other club has three ~ reliable
ones rs We possess, while our tclderS can
play m almost cTrorlrSs game If they want
To. Again. the boys are all good batters
and an had good record up to the time
they went away. The games pitched lay
Dunn We're The only ones won on tine trip,
notwithstanding the tact that the base
hit made by the opposing clubs often far
,Nceedrdcd those made 10y Wheeling, and
those made OF ui kimbrr aud Sullivan.
WHY tins feeling i'm the CUh exists, it it
doe. is NOT known, but there * the best
OF evidence that something is rotten ia
| Denmark, and yesterdays yellow game
Srtt'. q the whole matter With the score
standing To in favor of Wheeling at the
end of the seventh, people had begun to
| think that they were mistaken in their
suspicious, but in the eighth when
/ tour runs were made by Akron
| there was general feeling of disgust and
/ the suspicious oi rotten, undrrhaudrd
I wutk became stronger than ever, being in
| tyu-iu,l when il was discovered that the
runs We're made by Akron without even
| goug Ia the trouble of making single
| base hit. When the error column Is then
glanced at the story is finished.
Nearly all the friends Of the club stuck
! up Tor il until yesterday, but now they are
convinced that there is,omrthing radically
wrong. anu the base ball public demands
au investigation and ughtiug Of matters
before it goes any further, because they will
not patronize any such ball playing ~ has
| been done on the trip. To show what good
! foundation these suspicious arc based on,
/ Mallory, who came home the other dag,
said that the Wheeling team could have won
every game played abroad with the eXcep-
ton OF the one he pitched at Kalamzoo, and
before Yesterdays game he WAS willing to
bet so to s. ta,t Wheeling would lose
both games at Akron, pitched by kimbrr
and Sullivan Mallory has been right
along with the club and he ought to know
something about the matter.
The report came last evening that Sulli-
van had gone out OF the box, refusing TO
pitch because OF poor support and num-
bel Of gentlemen made up purse to send
HIM. which was not done after they found
! that circumstances were otherwise. There
w.,> more h1sc bali talk ON inr streets last
evening than has been heard in the city
for many day, and the general sentiment
is in favor OF taking extreme measures To
uurll any ct the spirit that they think Il
seated in the club.
II WAS understood that the Directors
tcicgapu,d t. Manager Nicholson, last
evening, to have Dunn pitch to-day.